Data may help to address Navy supply chain issues

By Audrey Decker / January 26, 2022 at 4:02 PM
Harnessing the power of data can help alleviate the Navy’s supply chain issues and give predictability to the defense industrial base to avoid "feast or famine" scenarios, according to a service official. Tom Sasala, the Navy’s chief data officer, said it’s hard to predict market-driven pricing since planning cycles stretch so far into the future. “That's really one of the pushes we're trying to get for some of the predictive natures in terms of, can we actually predict where the...

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